AstroTechTalk – att

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The AstroTechTalk (ger) offers a place to discuss, for all interested colleagues and especially for the technical departments, the project leaders, the administration and the scientists as the ultimately users:

status of instrumentation projects
scientific tasks and features of the instruments in construction or planned
new possible involvements
technical innovations and developments
technical problems and their solutions
logistical problems and their solutions
how to improve operation and observation
project standards.

Time: Always Fridays 11:00 - 12:00 (during the construction work: 10:00 - 11:00)

Location: MPIA Hoersaal (during the construction work: HdA Auditorium)

Outline:

Announcements (news, visitors, etc.) (mainly in German)
Talk of about 30 min about a selected topic (German or English, will be announced)
Follow up discussion and questions (German or English, depending on the speaker)

Proposals for talks: Please send an email to "hofferbert -at- mpia.de" or "naranjo -at- mpia.de" - alternatively you might reach us by phone (06221-528209 or -290) or in person (room 211 or 018) at MPIA.

Observations with giant segmented ground telescopes promise to revolutionise VIS and NIR astronomy. Yet, to take full benefit of the collecting power, resolution (and sensitivity) of these huge machines, adaptive optics systems are key and are poised to become mainstream. They are to assist 100% of the observations, for ELTs are too large to operate as conventional seeing-limited telescopes.

Carlos Correia will provide an overview of current developments on novel wave-front sensing techniques using natural and laser guide stars, advanced wave-front reconstruction for the different AO modes and the challenges faced when customising AO post-processing in order to meet stringent science goals. Furthermore, he will show how these developments are propelling the design of HARMONI, the European Extremely Large Telescope's 1st light IFU.

Presentation: English
Slides: English
Questions: German, English

Date	Speaker	Topic
04.01.2019	--	Christmas Break
11.01.2019 (11hrs, MPIA Hoersaal)	Carlos Correia (LAM)	Making it up to E(A)LT's: Extremely (Adaptive) Large Telescopes
18.01.2019
25.01.2019 (11hrs, MPIA Hoersaal)	Martin Kürster	Double Feature: (1) Introduction of project NTE (2) CARMENES finds Super Earth at Barnard's Star - after all Abstract Presentation: German Slides: English Questions: German, English
01.02.2019
08.02.2019
15.02.2019
22.02.2019
01.03.2019
08.03.2019
15.03.2019
22.03.2019
29.03.2019
05.04.2019
12.04.2019
19.04.2019	--	Good Friday
26.04.2019	--	Easter Break